UEFA vows doping crackdown

UEFA have vowed to catch out drug cheats in football by introducing out-of-competition testing for all 16 teams who qualify for next summer’s European Championships.

European football’s governing body can now check for the presence of newly-discovered steroid tetrahydrogestrinone – THG – in players’ samples, following advice from the World Anti-Doping Agency, and players will be randomly subjected to testing.